National Lampoon's Blackball (2005)
National Lampoon's Blackball (2005)
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Cast
as Cliff Starkey
as Rick Schwartz
as Ray Speight
as Kerry Speight
as Trevor
as Bridget
as Mutley
as TV Director
as Mark Doohan
as Kyle Doohan
as Bouncer Jonno
as Local News Reporter
as Gate Guard
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A full-on local crowd-pleaser, "Blackball" takes the genteel sport of, uh, lawn bowling and comes up with a shameless slice of Brit flag-waving comedy.
It's messy, but the real problem is: it's not funny.
The laughs here are way off-target. This Brit-flop won't be bowling anyone over.
Tim Firth's script is functional on a sitcom level at best, and Mel Smith's direction differs from the usual hack job only in being a bit worse (especially in the frequent montages set to rock songs).
It just winds up as another filmmaking exercise where it's thought that the story is there, but in reality, it got drunk at the corner bar and puked all over the characters.
Shares very little in common with the anarchic humor of the magazine, live shows, records or movies that made the Lampoon name so venerated in the first place.
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Reasonably entertaining, and though I'm not sure that it's exactly how it happened it's all good fun.
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